shutting down X

[Salman Ahmed <ssahmed@interlog.com>]

I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage
X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when
shutting down or rebooting my system.

After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is
terminated but then I am 'dumped' back to the first virtual
console (tty1). I don't see any of the messages like :

 shutting down XXX
 shutting down YYY
 shutting down ZZZ
 sending HUP siganl to all processes
 sending KILL signal to all processes

However, if I immediately press Ctrl+Alt+F7 right after
getting dumped to the first VC, I do see these messages.

My question is : why is this not happening be default so
that whenever I shutdown/poweroff/reboot the system I should
see these termination messages ??

Is this syslog configuration issue or a WDM configuration
issue ?

I was used seeing this output from RedHat when it shutdown
and it didn't require any configuration tweaking.

Thanks for any help.

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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT interlog DOT com